The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary

Revised and Expanded

Editor in Chief: Jack Halpern and Foreword by Y.-H. Tohsaku

3,002 kanji entries-772 more than in the first edition-reflect recent changes in the government-prescribed Joyo and Jinmei Kanji lists

Readings shown in kana instead of romanized Japanese

Thousands more compounds and other usage examples

Expanded coverage of name readings

2,136 stroke-order diagrams show how to write each kanji stroke by stroke

Gives alternative forms of kanji when more than one is considered acceptable according to the most recent Joyo Kanji specifications

Thousands of cross-references and five appendixes give instant access to a mass of useful reference data

The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary

Revised and Expanded

Revised and Expanded Edition

Editor in Chief: Jack Halpern and Foreword by Y.-H. Tohsaku

A Publication of Kodansha USA

Description

With The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary: Revised and Expanded, learners finally have at their fingertips accurate and in-depth information on all the kanji prescribed by the Japanese government. In all, 3,002 characters-772 more than in the first edition-fill its pages, making it the most comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of its kind.

The main goal of the dictionary is to give the learner instant access to a wealth of useful information on kanji, including their meanings, readings, stroke order, and usage in compounds.

Compounds pose a special problem for learners. Normally one must memorize them as unrelated units. A unique feature of this dictionary that overcomes this difficulty is the core meaning, a concise keyword that defines
the dominant sense of each kanji, followed by character meanings, or specific senses the kanji can have when used in the living language. Together these features help learners understand the logic behind compound formation.

Another unique feature is the System of Kanji Indexing by Patterns (SKIP), a revolutionary indexing system that has gained widespread popularity because it enables the user to locate characters as quickly and as accurately as in alphabetical dictionaries. With SKIP, all one needs to do to find a kanji is identify the geometrical pattern to which it belongs, then count the strokes in each part of that pattern-a much speedier process than searching by traditional methods.

These features, and many more, make this dictionary the most powerful
kanji-learning tool ever devised.

The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary

Revised and Expanded

Revised and Expanded Edition

Editor in Chief: Jack Halpern and Foreword by Y.-H. Tohsaku

A Publication of Kodansha USA

Author Information

Editor-in-Chief Jack Halpernis the CEO of The CJK Dictionary Institute (CJKI) in Japan. The institute is one of the world's prime sources for CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) dictionaries, and specializes in compiling comprehensive CJK and Arabic lexical databases. A lexicographer by profession, Halpern spent sixteen years compiling the New Japanese-English Character Dictionary, also newly revised and republished as The Kodansha Kanji Dictionary.

The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary

Revised and Expanded

Revised and Expanded Edition

Editor in Chief: Jack Halpern and Foreword by Y.-H. Tohsaku

A Publication of Kodansha USA

Reviews and Awards

"Up-to-date, reliable, and easy to use this beautifully designed dictionary meets the needs of a wide range of Japanese language learners."
-Y.-H. Tohsaku, President, American Association of Teachers of Japanese

"A must for those who wish to overcome the obstacles posed by the study of kanji an excellent tool that allows even beginners to look up kanji with ease."
-Akito Ozaki, President, The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language